Stephen King Says Britney & Lindsay Should Be Time’s Person Of The Year
Gilbert Cruz of Time magazine caught up with Stephen King for a Q&A, where the author asked who the mag was going to name as their Person Of The Year. When Cruz said he didn’t know and that there’s a very small group of people who make that decision, King responded, “I was thinking, I think it should be Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.” Explaining his choice, King said, “You know, I just filmed a segment for ‘Nightline’, about [the movie version of his novella] ‘The Mist’, and one of the things I said to them was, you know, ‘You guys are just covering – what do they call it – the scream of the peacock, and you’re missing the whole fox hunt.’ Like waterboarding [or] where all the money went that we poured into Iraq. It just seems to disappear. And yet you get this coverage of who’s gonna get custody of Britney’s kids? Whether or not Lindsay drank at her twenty-first birthday party, and all this other sh**. You know, this morning, the two big stories on CNN are Kanye West’s mother [Donda], who died, apparently, after having some plastic surgery. The other big thing that’s going on is whether or not this cop [Drew Peterson] killed his… wife. And meanwhile, you’ve got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop. You’ve got a guy in charge, who’s basically declared himself the military strongman and is being supported by the Bush administration, whose raison d’etre for going into Iraq was to spread democracy in the world. So you’ve got these things going on, which seem to me to be very substantive, that could affect all of us, and instead, you see a lot of this back-fence gossip.” Read more.
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April 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
i love it!! king is so correct and i love how brutally honest he is. i too am amazed at what i see on the news, as far as non news worthy stuff goes, but for some reason the american people eat it up.